Sentence examples for fire stimulates from inspiring English sources

Fire stimulates the growth of certain plants, like dwarf pines; it melts the resin seal on the dwarf pines' cones and releases the seeds.

For example, many plant species in fire-prone environments have seeds that remain dormant within the soil until the heat of a fire stimulates them to germinate.

Fire stimulates release and germination of seeds of the jack pine, and also enriches the forest floor with wood ash and removes competing vegetation.

Fifteen of the species had fire-stimulated recruitment and 14 recruit in unburnt, older vegetation.

According to Forsyth and Walker (2008), controlled burning practices can systematically enrich both forest and fallow vegetation as stored nutrients are released and added to the soil resulting in increased biomass production, while fire also stimulates seed dispersal and controls disease and pest outbreaks.

She and her coauthors demonstrated that the repeated stimulations led to increased firing of the circuit; they suggest that the repetitions prime the circuit so that it is more likely to fire, perhaps stimulating even more circuits downstream.

The land was managed by Aboriginal tribes or language groups for tens of thousands of years through a range of traditional practices, including the use of fire to stimulate the growth of valued plants or to clear grasslands for hunting.

"The effect on the stem cells is the most exciting finding... This opens applications for patients with neurodegenerative diseases, especially Alzheimer's, and patients recovering from stroke". The team also saw evidence of long-term potentiation - changes to the nerve cells making them more sensitive and more likely to fire if stimulated by neurons next to them.

That's exactly where the brittle star has nerves that fire when stimulated by light, Hendler says.

Zinc leaking from firing neurons stimulates lone b-amyloid fibers to congregate into plaques, which block the body's trash collectors from sweeping up the damaged b amyloid.

In contrast, SEA results from Lago Perso show that fire clearly stimulated the abundance of Larix decidua after a period of 100 years (Figure 2B).